Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 2 | ‘ The bad news is that they want to see a first draft script within three weeks . ’ |
| 3 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 4 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 5 | Distinction Awards are Postgraduate studentships which are open to students ordinarily resident anywhere in the UK , who hold or expect to obtain a 1st class Honours degree and who have not previously obtained a postgraduate research award . |
| 6 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 7 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 8 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 9 | Langbaurgh is still a key marginal and if the Tories want to form the next Government , it 's seat like these they need to win and to win well . |
| 10 | Then they came and said , ‘ We want to do a second album ’ , and I really did n't want to do it , because I do n't want to be the next , let's say , Joe Satriani or Eric Johnson , even though those guys are really successful in their field . |
| 11 | Some insurers , such as Perrysurance and Pickfords , have also introduced cover for legal expenses if you want to pursue a third party . |
| 12 | This time we want to make the 1st division . |
| 13 | Huggett ( 1976b ) also noted that the systems of the atoms-to-planet and the atoms-to-societies hierarchies commingle to produce a third hierarchy which is the hierarchy of environmental systems . |
| 14 | If you want to skip the first quest in The Legend of Zelda on the NES , you can go straight on to the second one by entering Zelda as your name on the initial screen . |
| 15 | The brother and sister , from Waverton , Chester , hope to win a first prize in the contest of free membership to the RSPCA 's Animal Action Club . |
| 16 | On the eve of the ballot both camps expressed confidence about the outcome : Mrs Thatcher 's team anticipated gaining sufficient votes to win outright : Heseltine 's followers asserted that he had enough support to force a second ballot . |
| 17 | And if there were n't enough Mansoori boys of the right age for Mansoori girls then the answer was either spinsterhood or a long wait to become the second wife of an older man . |
| 18 | Governors at Gillbrook School in South Bank hope to become the first grant maintained school in the North-East . |
| 19 | Midland Air Museum at Coventry have produced a limited edition ( 500 ) print to mark the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Gloster E28/39 — a lovely watercolour by Ken Aitken . |
| 20 | But here the Common Law Courts manage to get the last word ; for they acquired the power , in the fifteenth century , to decide whether the writ is good or not , and if not , the fact that the plaintiff has got the writ will not help him . |
| 21 | ‘ Drug barons frequently seem to have a sixth sense where the police are concerned . |
| 22 | Some birds manage to nest a second time within the season , and it is these birds , again with recent experience , which breed at the end of the season . |
| 23 | I realize I am too awake to fall back asleep but I manage to make the fourth minute take longer than the previous three to count out , or finally |
| 24 | How did the implementers of the monetarist nonsense which brought about the first recession manage to produce a second recession ? |
| 25 | The three Shepherds wake to find the fourth Shepherd , Mak , lying still beside them . |
| 26 | This program is only a playable demo , which means you only get to play the first level . |
| 27 | Prepare it with your requisitions , whilst the title is still fresh in your mind and remember to make a third copy when you do n't act for your client 's mortgagee . |
| 28 | Despite this broad formulation , the courts still continue to use the second limb of the formula , that a requirement of the Act has not been complied with . |
| 29 | It is obviously to the husband 's advantage in such circumstances to seek to persuade the first mortgagee to offer the wife a further advance of sufficient amount to repay the second charge . |
| 30 | Whereas before the majority of pet dog owners would have just one dog , more and more people now decide to get a second dog — often as a playmate for their first dog . |